Garfield
was standing next to the buffet. Gary had caught the girl's eyes
immediately and now he had run of with one of them and left him all
alone, and to top it of had the banquet people no vegetarian food on
the list. It was all meat. Garfield felt a shudder run down his spine
at the thought of all the poor animals that had to die to be eaten.
He put down his plate, turned around and froze.

--

Koriand'r
didn't know which of the three men she had seen first. It was
strange and not logical. She had stood before hundreds of Tamaranian
soldier ready to fight thousands of enemy soldiers and she hadn't
even blinked.

But when
her eyes landed on the three men her entire body was shaking.
Especially when she saw the black hair boy with the sunglasses. For a
moment her heart stopped beating.

--

Richard
suddenly felt a rush of adrenalin pore through his body only matched
with when he was flying through the air. He looked at the black man,
Victor Stone, and felt a rush of respect. His eyes fell on the blond
boy and suddenly trust and fellowship filled him. And then his eyes
landed on the red headed woman. Love he didn't even know he could
feel grasped his heart and made him gasp for air.

Then he
suddenly felt fears cold grasp cling to him like a wet towel. One was
missing. She was missing.

--

"Raven."

Victor
didn't know why he suddenly thought about her. He thought it had to
do with the other three looking at him. He suddenly felt a peace he
hadn't felt with the exception of his deepest dreams. But something
was wrong. She should have been there. She should have…

--

Garfield
didn't know why, but when the man had uttered the name Raven he
suddenly felt empty. For a second, just second, he had forgotten that
she was gone. That the woman standing a few feet away wasn't here.
He had forgotten her. He had forgotten her. He had…

--

The room
started to shake, and on impulse Richard ran over to the woman and
grabbed around her. Trying to protect her.

"What
are you doing?"

"Get
down."

--

The light
fell down and Garfield threw himself down on the floor to not get
hit. A picture suddenly fell to his mind of a green elephant. He
didn't know why. Why would he think of green elephants when the
room was falling apart? It didn't make sense.

--

Koriand'r
looked up at the boy holding her down. If it had been anyone else she
would have killed him with her bare hands, but he was different. She
liked him holding her. Protecting her. She sudden felt an urge to
take of his sunglasses. It was so illogical. The room was falling
apart, and all she could do was take her hands up and take of his
sunglasses. His eyes where beautiful, big and the colour of…

--

"I'm
sorry to interrupt you guys but we better get out of here."

Victor
looked down at the two lying on the floor. Some people had the worst
timing. Just like last time.

"Come
on."

Finally
they got up and he led the four of them out of the room and into a
smaller room, looking like a library or the old kind of smoking room.

--

"So I
guess you all have that dream about her."

"Raven."

"Yes."

"Do any
of you know here?"

"I
don't."

"Never
seen her in my life."

"But I
have visions."

"We all
have, don't we?"

"In one
of mine she tells me that she is in love with a man called Beast
Boy."

"She
calls me Beast Boy in one mine. Does that means she is in love with
me?"

--

Garfield
suddenly couldn't stop smiling. The woman was sitting not far from
him, looking up at him with a queer look. Garfield didn't know why
the thought of Raven having a crush on him would make him so happy.
He had a girlfriend. Terra. Raven. Garfield sat down and couldn't
get the goofy smile of his face. She loved him. She was in love with
him.

--

A scream.
A scream that sent shivers down his spine.

"Raven."

The blond
boy uttered her name, as a picture was visible for all of them. In
the centre of them a woman, partly see through, was standing both
confused and in pain. Looking from one part to another.

"No."

Tears were
running down her face, and Victor thought this odd. He hadn't seen
her cry since, since. Had he ever seen her cry?

--

She was
crying. Before he could think Garfield put out his hand to dry them.
He didn't want her to cry. As quickly as his skin touched hers
something odd happened. The hand that was touching her turned green,
before weird memories came and forced him to his knees.

Pictures
of him with green skin, claw like hands and feet. Fangs and pointed
ears. Pictures of his parents dying and other people that he cared
deeply for suffering the same fate. Terra, betraying them, fighting
him, sacrificing herself to save them. And something primal. A beast,
lurking deep inside him, threatening to take control over his body at
any given moment.

Garfield
looked up at the girl, not understanding.

"Do you
see why I had to do it?"

--

She turned
her face from the blond boy and her violet eyes set on his brown.

"Hello
Cyborg."

She opened
her mouth to say something more when she flinched in pain, and Victor
grabbed her arm. He too without thinking and he also with
consequences. His hand turned into metal, and his head was suddenly
filled with images about him as a half robot something creature. The
pain, the humiliation, the fear of not being human again brought
tears to his eyes.

"I'm
sorry. I'm so, so sorry."

--

Her gaze
landed on him, and Richard suddenly got scared of her. Of what she
could show him.

--

Koriand'r
suddenly felt weird. She was curious of what this girl could show
her.

"May I?"

Raven just
looked at her as she grabbed her hand. Suddenly another woman was
standing next to her. Blackfire. Koriand'r suddenly felt fear for
this woman. Her sister. Koriand'r hated being afraid. She grabbed a
chandelier from the table and threw it at the woman, but it just went
straight through her. Koriand'r took a step back.

"Starfire."

Koriand'r
looked oddly at her. How could she know?

--

To say
Richard was terrified was an understatement. He turned and tried to
run out of the room, but when he came to the door he stopped. She
didn't try to stop him. She didn't say his name, or scold him for
leaving them. She had brought them all together, and now she was just
letting him walk out the door. Why? He turned and looked at her.

"Why?"

"Why
what?"

He was
surprised about how calm she looked. Like she had seen so much pain
and suffering some more couldn't hurt.

"Why did
you gather us here?"

"I
didn't Robin. You brought me here."

--

"But who
are you?"

Garfield
couldn't forget the image of his parents dying, or the pain of
seeing people he obviously cared for die or leave him. Or the
insecurity he had felt about having green skin and being able to
morph into animals, thou that thought also thrilled him a bit. He
knew it had something to do with the woman standing in front of him.
The most beautiful woman he had ever seen. The woman that had haunted
his mind and dreams all his life.

"I was
your friend. In another life, we five were different. Haunted.
Heroes. Titans"

"And how
come we are like this and you are…"

--

Victor
didn't know what she was actually so his voice just died of.

"That
was the deal. My life, for the life you where supposed to have."

He didn't
understand. The explosion. The things his father had implanted in
him. That had been real? He looked at the woman in front of him. She
had been real too?

--

"So the
dreams, they are memories then?"

Raven
looked confused at her. Koriand'r was still shook up about the
image, but she needed information.

"What
dreams?"

"You
don't know? I, we all have, dreamed of you our entire life."

"You
have. You remembered me?"

--

Raven
looked from one person to the other before landing on him. It
suddenly struck him how deep her eyes where. He wondered what was
behind the sadness and the calmness so much larger than anyone he had
ever seen.

"Yes."

Her hand
went to her mouth in shock and sudden understanding. Then she smiled
as tears where running down her cheeks. It was the most beautiful
smile he had ever seen.

--

She looked
at him.

"Robin."

Richard
didn't know why, but it felt right for her to call him that. More
than if she had called him Dick or Richard.

"Are you
happy?"

"Yes."

Her gaze
wondered down. He had never seen anyone with so little hope as right
then. Hadn't she always had hope? Suddenly all his fear was gone.
Or, not gone. They where never completely gone. But another feeling
was suddenly stronger than his fear. Love and compassion for this
woman. He grabbed her hand, and was suddenly overwhelmed with grief
as he saw his parents fall to their death.

But then
he remembered something else. He remembers working with a man that
made him feel small but also larger than life. He remembered the look
on young children's faces when they ran over to say he was their
idol. He remembered meeting four people that changed his life. Eating
pizza. Working next to them. Playing in the sun. Talking. He saw and
felt Starfire next to him at night. And he remembered the gentle
caresses of a woman he cared very much for.

"But I
was also happy before."

--

Koriand'r
didn't know why but she grabbed the same hand that the boy had
grabbed. She too remembered other things. Remembered how wonderful
this planet could be. Remembered dragging the woman all over the
mall. Watching television. Just hanging out with her friends. Nice.

"As was
I."

--

Victor saw
what the other two had done, and something in him made him copy it,
even with the fright of last time. The first images came, as
expected, but he didn't let go. And after them, below, were others.
Images of him being in the park with his friends. Crushing Beast Boy
in video games. Learning that being what he was didn't make him
less of a man. Building a car with his own two hands, instead of just
designing them.

"And so
was I."

--

Garfield
just looked at her. He grabbed her hand, and images, like they had
done for the other three, came to him. Fighting with Cyborg about
tofu versus meat. Training and learning he could actually be good at
something more than animals. Being part of a group and a team.
Hearing Raven laugh, and looking at her and feeling he loved her.

"And
me."

--

Raven
looked at him and couldn't help grinning.

"No
deal."

"But…"

"Our
bond is so strong, even taking away their nightmares could break it.
I win, you loose, and you can go back to my father and tell him
that."

--

Raven
smiled as the smoke settled. She might not be able to take away their
pain, but she should be able to give them a good nights rest. She
didn't know why she hadn't thought of it before. She grabbed the
dream catchers and phased out of her room. The light blue she hung
over Cyborgs charging table. She saw how his vitals settled at once,
and a smile form on his lips.

"Sweet
dreams dear friend."

Raven
phased out and into Starfires room. She wasn't there, but this
didn't scare Raven, since she knew she some times slept with Robin
in his room. So she just hung the yellow dream catcher over her bed
and phased out. She stopped outside Robin's room and listened, not
wanting to interrupt anything private. Nothing. She phased in and saw
the both of them sleeping in each other's arms. Raven felt a sting
of jealousy, but just smiled. She wanted them to have so much
happiness as they could. When the red dream cathcher was up, Raven
couldn't help herself but carefully stroke his cheek.

"Thank
you."

Before
phasing out and into Beast Boy's messy room. She flew up and hung
his green one over the top bunk when he stirred and opened his drowsy
eyes.

"Raven?"

"Hi
Beast Boy."

"I just
had a weird dream."

Raven just
smiled. When they woke up next morning, they wouldn't remember a
thing.

"Raven,
is it true that you love me?"

"Who
told you that?"

"Starfire.
In my dream."

Raven
swore under her breath, but didn't let him see that.

"Yes."

"I love
you too."

She looked
down as something exploded. She looked at him again and smiled. He
would soon fall asleep again, and he wouldn't remember a thing.

"Go to
sleep Beast Boy."

Like magic
did he close his eyes and soon fell into a deep slumber. Raven smiled
as she phased back to her room, looked at her purple one, and did the
same.

--

Raven had
never seen her friends so happy when each of them woke up. Robin was
almost singing. Starfire was singing, and Cyborg didn't care that
Starfire was singing. Even Raven couldn't help smile as she watch
how they where they where acting that morning. Robin agreed to skip
his morning exercise to be with Starfire, and Cyborg actually told
them he had called Bumblebee that morning and asked her out on a
date. And no one made fun as Beast Boy still half a sleep walked in
wearing just boxers.

"Oh
isn't this a most glorious morning friend Beast Boy."

"It sure
is Starfire."

Even Beats
Boy was happier as he grabbed his morning coffee. He turned and was
surprised to find Raven standing right behind him.

"Oh
sorry Rae. Didn't see you there."

He had
forgotten what he had told her last night, just as she knew he would.
She cupped his face and kissed him. He was just standing there,
surprised, taking in the kiss. Finally she let go of his face and
smiled up to him.

"I love
you too, too."

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